Wednesday 1 Feb: Overview of Schools of Literary Criticism; Dr. Hammond's handout; my quick guide; my essay on Post-Structuralism; HW: Brainstorm critical schools that are of interest
Thursday 2 Feb: Here's the assignment sheet for the paper; Work on proposal and rudimentary JSTOR research; proposal due at the end of class Friday 3 Feb: Mrs. Walsh at Model UN; In-class writing on "The Dead"; see 5 Steps for parallel sample; prepare so that you can learn as much as possible Here are the main dates for the paper: Proposal due: by the end of class Thursday, February 2 Simple bibliography of 5 sources: Tuesday, February 7 Thesis and Informal outline: Wednesday, February 15 Well written draft due: Wednesday, March 1 Hot seat opens Wednesday, March 8, closes Tuesday, March 21 (appointments assigned) Paper due: Wednesday March 22 in class Here is a pdf of Terry Eagleton's Literary Theory: An Introduction Monday 6 Feb: Poetry unit begins while you write the AK paper at home; review "That time of year," "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer," "The Boy," "Halley's Comet," "A Green Crab's Shell" Tuesday 7 February: Simple Bibliography due; Poetry instruction in class while you write at home; overall emotional effect (Poe); exercise with multiple poems Wednesday 8 February: Poetry instruction in class while you write at home; closed forms reviewed (take good notes) Thursday 9 February: Literary history and literary criticism/theory review exercise Friday 10 February: Closed form review: form, meter, line, (line endings, framing, pace) Monday 13 February: No School; Headmaster's Holiday Tuesday 14 February: Image, Symbol, Metaphor and Simile Wednesday 15 February: Thesis and informal outline due for AK paper; Thursday 16 February: Rhetorical figures (check out Liturgy Guys episode [Season 2, episode 24, "Pete and Repeat..."; begin at 4:10 after the banter; substance starts at 8:10 or so] for related tropes as we see them in the Mass) Friday 17 February: No class; half day Monday 20 February: No school; Presidents' Day Tuesday 21 February: (small class because of Opening Number practice) Useful Repetition redux; Antithesis, Oxymoron, Paradox; Sound Tropes; review of fundamentals; trope review Wednesday 22 February: Literary history and literary theory quest (25 minutes); Review of material so far: closed forms (sonnet, villanelle, pantoum, blank verse, heroic couplet); review using sample poems; review for poetry fundamentals test; Here is scansion worksheet Thursday 23 February: shaping forms (ode, elegy, pastoral, dramatic monologue, Dinggedicht, ekphrasis) Friday 24 February: Additional scansion review and some cold analysis; here is a clean answer sheet for the cold poems; here are answers for "The Panther," "The Passionate Shepherd...," "To Autumn," and "I Go Back to May 1937." Here is a second packet and a quick screencast about process, focusing on Gwendolyn Brooks' "We Real Cool." Monday 27 February: Poetry fundamentals test with some cold analysis Tuesday 28 February: AP FRQ 1 (Poetry) practice; here's a sample to help you think about a worthy poem and a possible prompt Wednesday 1 March: Well written draft of AK paper (with works cited page) due in class Comments are closed.
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